ULSTER DOC’S

IT’S a bit of a delicate subject but if one person can handle it, it is Northern Ireland’s revered gynaecologist Prof Jim Dornan.

At 69, he has left behind his first love, the world of delivering babies and helping mums in the miracle of birth.

He has swapped the mystery of child birth for the misery of pelvic floor problems – and more importantly, a solution for most.

And once again, he has the ladies flocking to his door.

Prof Dornan said: “Well things move on in everyone’s life and I’m no different.

“A lot of ladies who I’d have seen in years gone by in labour wards are now calling to see me about a little issue down below.

“It’s a delicate subject and not as robust as childbirth. It’s the problem ladies are having with their pelvic floor and the fact that over the years and after childbirth the stresses can be very telling – and very trying.

“From incontinence to sexual problems, they really are struggling.

“And I feel delighted I am able to offer them a solution now that has been working for practically every women coming to me with sexual issues and more than 75% of the ladies coming to me with incontinence issues.”

Prof Dornan is talking about a magic wand, a little piece of plastic with a radio frequency conductor.

The Thermiva treatment was developed in the US, taking the idea of tightening facial and neck skin, increasing blood supply, muscle tone and general health in specific areas.

And, well, now it’s being used somewhere completely different with excellent results.

The professor said: “The system is actually mindblowing. The difference it is making to ladies, many of whom have been struggling for years, for decades. It offers a cure to many and a major improvement to others.

“I don’t know why we didn’t think of it earlier. The radio frequency technique has been used effectively on face skin and muscle tone. Now it’s being used to tone and improve the vaginal and pelvic floor area. There’s no surgery, no recovery period and no risk. It literally can do no harm. And the results I am seeing are excellent.

“I have more mature patients who have suffered with incontinence for 20 years or more and they are now dry and able to get about their day without a care.

“I have younger patients who’ve discovered they’ve been left incontinent through childbirth and the results have been incredible for them.

“I have couples come to me where the lady is experiencing dryness and lack of interest in intimacy.

“And again after three sessions I have found all of the patients that I’ve seen in

Professor trialling treatment